🌱 Mask Mandate Ending + Affordable Housing Forums

Hello, neighbors! It's me again, Michael Wittner, your host of the Santa Cruz Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 77 Low: 47.

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Here are the top stories in Santa Cruz today:

1. Affordable housing ideas in the spotlight: Forums to detail two possible Santa Cruz ballot measures (Lookout Santa Cruz)
2. Santa Cruz County To Lift Mask Mandate Feb. 16 (Santa Cruz Patch)
3. 'Privates' beach access approved for Santa Cruz County takeover (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
4. Capitola Police find card skimmer in bank ATM546 (KION)
5. Photo | Apartment complex takes shape in Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
6. Cabrillo Parts Ways with Embattled Vice President (Good Times Weekly)
7. Capitola's nameless park project moves ahead (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
8. EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Supervisor Greg Caput Won't Seek Reelection (Good Times Weekly)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• Santa Cruz County Workforce Collaborative: Career Coach and Mapping Tool (9:00 AM)
• Tech Talks: Library eBooks and Audiobooks (Apple/Android) (11:00 AM)
• JavaScript Coding - Virtual Library (3:00 PM)
• CAPS Graduate Men's Group - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (5:15 PM)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today! I'll see you around.

— Michael Wittner

About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.